Someone recently asked for a mirror-covered basketball for a bar mitzvah. The company regularly fields requests for custom disco balls but often passes. Omega still makes flexible mirror sheets for high-profile disco balls as seen on Dancing With the Stars, the Oscars, and on Madonna's tours. None of us have dyed hair or crazy tattoos or anything," she laughs. And lest you think the people making the disco balls are club kids themselves, Lehring describes her colleagues as "regular manufacturing people that get up and go to work everyday" who work in what she calls an "overly basic" office. Omega still has some disco balls hanging in the building's windows, most of the archives and photos of some of the more dazzling creations from the last fifty years were lost during an office move. While the company is no longer the only game in disco ball business, it's still part of their product line (in addition to wine racks and decorative valences). "Most Louisvillians weren't aware that most of the disco balls were made here in their city," Lehring says.
At that time, their 48 inch balls were retailing for nearly $4,000, a hefty price at the time.
At its peak, Lehring says Omega made 90% of the world's mirror balls.
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